Automobile brake



July 3,1923.

J. J. KOHOUT ET AL AUTOMOBILE BRAKE- Ffiled March 29. 1921 Patented July 3, 192 3. I

' IT D- AT S 1 nan PAT NT ,om

JERRY J. Kono r AND THOMAS n, eunsom or NUNN, 'ooLon'ADo.

AUTOMOBILE BRAKE.

Application filed March. 29, 1921. Serial No.- 456,769,

To allwhomz'tmag concei /t."

Be it known that we, JERRY J Korrour and THOMAS H. ,GUNSON, citizens of Bohemia, residing; at Nunn, 'in the county of Weld and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile Brakes; and we do hereby declare the following to be 'a' ful1, 'clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in automobile brakes and'has for its primary object the provision of means which may be easily and quickly brought into engagement with the ground by t e operator to stopv the automobile or when desiring to prevent or stop the skid ding of said automobile.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a brake of the above stated character which will be simple, durable and eflicient, and which may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively low cost.

With these and other objects in view as will becomemore apparenttas the descrip tion proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction,'combi nation, and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of'our invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawin s, in which:--

igure 1 is a fragmentary view illustrating an automobile with our invention applied thereto, c

Figure 2 is a rear elevation illustrating the same,

Figure 3 is a slde elevation illustrating the brake, v c

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view illustrating the operating means for the brake.

Referring in detail tothe drawings, the

numeral 1 indicates as an entirety an automobile and the rear axle 2 thereof has'our ining 6 is detachably secured to the section of the automobile 1.;

5by means of bolts 8 which provides a-construction which will permit the bearingfi to be readily assembled on the rear axle 2 A stud '9 is formed integrally with'the section 7 ofthe bearing 6' and is adaptedto-engage some part ofthe automobile, as for instance the rear spring 10 for the purpose of limiting I the Y pivotal movement of the shank 4 on the axle in one direction. The other end of the shank 4 has formed thereon an ear 11 which is of' a thickness less than the thickness ofthe shank to define shoulders 12. An car 13 is pivoted to the car 11 and conforms to the shape of the shoulder 12 and is formed upon a leg 14. The leg 14 and the end of the shank 4are provided with I abutting ends 15 adapted to limit the pivotal movement of the. leg in respect to the shank 4 in one direction. The leg 14 has formed upon its end a foot 16 having serrations 17 adapted to bite into the ground when said leg and shank 4 are moved into. a

a plane vertically with each other. The toe portionof the foot 16 is slightly curved upwardly as illustrated at l8'while' the heel portion is curved downwardly as illustrated ,on its pivot in one direction, the bearing 6 will be caused toturn about the axle'2 and the leg 14 to move upwardly towards-the axle, thus collapsing the'brake and on movement of the bell crank lever in a reverse direction, the leg and shank move in aline- .ment with each other, consequently 'brin'ging the foot into engagement with the mind.

The bell crank levers 20 of the brakes 3 are connected to rods '24 which are in turn pivoted to arms 25 formed on arod 26.]

The rod 26 is journaled to the automobile and has formed thereon an arm 27 A rod 28 is pivoted to'the arm 27 and to a pivot- 'ally mounted lever 29 which is located inconvenientreach of the. operator of the au-- tomobile, so that the operator may. move the foot into and out of engagement with the ground for the purpose ofstopping the automobile or to prevent skidding or to break up skidding of the automobile. I

While we have shown and described the prefen-red embodiment of. ourin vention dt Will -beziui'defstoodthat minorofchanges in construction, combination, and arrangement of parts may be made ithout departing from the spifit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described the invention What is claimed is .c 1

1. An automobile brake comprising a shank, afibearing' section formedintegrally With the shank and adapted; to. engage the rear "axle of anautomobile, awemovable bearing section carried =by 'zthe first named bearing section and engaging-the"axle a;

projection formed on the-removable section and": adapted to engage a part i of the 7 automobile to. limit the movement of the V shank inone direction, a groundengagmg element hinged to theshank, and-means fonmoving the -groundengaging element' with respect to the shank and for moving the shank in resp ct to. the. axle.- 1

2. An alito m obile' biakeh'o' inpiising a pivt otallywmounted shank, a leg hinged tosaid shank, a' foot formed on said leg and having .aaser ateduface a bell crank lever pivoted to said shank and slidably and pivotally connected to the leg, andmeansforhm parting movement toihebellcr'ank lever;

I In. testimony whereof We aflix our signaturesdn presenceiof two' witnesses.

' JERRY J. .KOH'OUT.

THQMAS 'R- GUNSON. NVitnesses -Q T..sA.z I U12NER, .U.1E. -MADDEN. 

